Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-08-02
Condensed DISPATCHES.

Jay Gould denies that he is to establish .
bank in Shanghai, China.
Mrs. Logan's shoulder and elbow was re-
set by Surgeon General Hamilton Monday.
The government of Rome has accepted the
offer of England to mediate between Italy
and Abyssinia.
M Ferry has finally chosen M. M. Proust
and Raynal as seconds in the coming duel
with Boulanger.
The public debt less cash in the treasury
is 81, PA ,583, ,842l9, decrease during July
of o. ,S44, ,S9S.S3.
Frank Brown, the well known farmer of
Dover, N. H., who weighed 423 pounds, died
rather suddenly Monday noon.
From fifteen to twenty deaths by cholera
are reported in Catania, Italy, daily. The
epidemic is spreading in the provinces.
The Parnellites have decided to adopt the
passive policy after the passage of the land
bill, to allow the speedy close of the session.
The town of Sassow in Galcia, was de-
stroyed by fre Monday. Fifteen corpses
have been recovered. Twenty children are
missing.
Twenty-Five hundred joiners are on a strike
at Hamburg. The police suppressed the
intensely indignant.
Rev. H. P. Dewey of Peoria, ILL.,, has ac-
cepted call to the pastorate of the South
Congregational church at Concord, N. H., at
an annual salary Of S2500.
A. J. Whitman. book keeper at the Gen.
trail Union Telegraph Co. at Chicago, has
been arrested for forgery. There are two
checks for 500, 900 each.
At St. Petersburg, Monday, three young
Nihilists murdered General Nesterovas' wid-
ow and stole 100000 roubles. They were
arrested while trying to escape to Turkey.
A dam burst on a mountain in Pennsylva-
mia, Monday. The village of Parsons WAS
flooded and the people fed for their lives. A
little girl, named Annie Quinn, was drowned.
VIM. F. Forward of Pslstka, Fla, clerk
of the circuit court has been suspended by
the Governor for embezziement and other
disreputable transactions, involving S22 900.
An invitation from Knoxville, Tenn,
| signed by all the officers and directors of the
Chamber of Commerce, has been forwarded
to the President, inviting him to visit the
city.
Mrs. Lille Schlimmer, q sixteenlyear old
wife, was murdered by her youthful husband
at Jersey City, N. j., Monday. The couple
were married without the consent of the girls
parents.
Charles Z. Reed, Guiteau's counsel who
jumped into the North River Saturday, was
examined yesterday by physicians and pro-
nounced insane. He is suffering from mel
anchola.
Jas Martin, seventeen years old, painter,
at work, fell from Brooklyn bridge Monday
morning l3o feet from the spot from which
Prof. Odum ieaped to his death. He was
slightly injured.
General Samuel Jones, who died Monday
at Belford Springs, Pa, was employed in the
Judge Advocate Generals Office. He was
West Pointer and rose to a brigadiership in
the rebel service.
In q speech at London Monday evening,
Viscount Cross, secretary of state for India,
said that the government was determined to
retain the Office because il could rely upon
the support of the unionists.
Rev. NJ. Hanselwan, assistant pastor of the
Catholic church of the Holy Trinity at
Brooklyn, preached Sunday morning on
Death" In the afternoon while conducting
vespers he was seized with hemorrhage and
died.
Alfred Lowrey, convicted of the murder
of his sweetheart, was hanged at Lancaster,
Eng, Monday. He made desperate resist
ance. screaming and fighting savagely, but
was finally overpowered and taken to the
scafold.
A large number of Indians. fusion of the
Chippewa, Winnebago and Pillager tribes,
are camped near Kimberly, MINI. Owing TO
domestic difficulty 10 which two men were
killed, it is thought there may be vendetta
among the tribes and general trouble.